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Saturday, February 12, 2011

One World One Heart

I went back and forth on whether or not to join this, especially after I visited some of the blogs and saw the fantastic door prizes…but what the heck…I’m off this week and can enjoy this…
So here goes….OWOH’s Fifth and Final Year
I have been to many of the participating blogs and their creativity has blown me away…I didn’t think I’d have anything to measure up to, but I finally decided on my door prize…
It is an amigurami bear, similar to the ones above.
So now to tell you about me: I have been married for 19 years. I am a fifth grade teacher (10 and 11 year olds) in an urban school district. I love being a teacher and became one later in life and it’s the only thing I’ve ever done that I totally love…My husband and I were not blessed with our own kids, but I have great nieces and nephews…I love to read, crochet, am learning to knit, I bead and love to learn about new places and traveling…yarn makes me very happy…I like day dates with the Hubs…I’m a sci-fi geek! Stargate being my favorite, then Farscape, Star Wars, Star Trek, Xena, Buffy, Dr. Who, etc…..I could go on…I like post-apocalyptic stories….I own two birds. My favorite movies are The Wizard of Oz, Jaws and Pride and Prejudice (I have varied taste!)
So hope you enjoyed your stop and please leave a comment, if you’d like to win a bear….

Edited to add: This ends on February 17 and I will draw a name when I get up in the morning on Feb 18 and notify the winner....
Edited to add: My name is Tammy....Gracey was a name given to me by an online teacher friend I met when she was visiting the States a long time ago...it involved a dark road on Cape Cod, wet dewy grass and trees and a necessary stop on the side of that dark road.....

122 comments:

Hello from Cody, Wyoming, USA. I enjoyed visiting your blog and getting to know a bit about you. Your little bears are so sweet. Thanks for participating in OWOH. Please enter me in the drawing for your awesome gift. If you haven't done so yet, please stop by and enter these giveaways too. # 385 http://stampgram.blogspot.com # 132 http://papertraders-art.blogspot.com/search/label/Home

Stopping in from Ky to say hello! This is my first time in this great event. I have visited so many fun and creative blogs during this OWOH journey!Please include me in your door prize giveaway. Thanks, Tee creationsbytee@gmail.com

Dear Gracey-(not your name)!--Loved reading about you and the teddies are adorable-please enter me to win! Hope to read and enjoy much more of your blog since I've recently subscribed to it! Have a nice vaca! Keep stitchin, Rain

It's wonderful that you are a teacher and i can't think of a better age to teach. I have a nephew who just loves Sci-Fi as well. Love your little bears. Crocheting is something I've tried but never mastered. Never could get anything uniform. LOL Have fun during the OWOH event. Thanks for participating.Jodyvisionquest2020 AT msn DOT com

Hi Life and Yarn, I just love your little Panda and would like to win it. Count me in! Please visit my blog, too. I am the author of "16 x MOM: A Mastery of Motherhood." I am giving away my book and a couple of laminated 4 leaf clovers.#844barbara@barbaracagle.comhttp://blog.barbaracagle.com

Greetings!...So pleased to visit your lovely blog. I am a Canadian Mixed Media and Digital Artist and look forward to meeting a new friend. I hope you will visit my blog as well. http://gaylepage-robak.blogspot.com or #230 on the OWOH list.

what a cool, fabulous Giveaway - please include me and do come and visit my blog and enter mine too –if you haven’t already – I am #139 - I will be back for a more leisurely look around your blog after the event :-) – Cheers Britt in Australia

your giveaway is so cute! i am also a teacher (grade 1) and find that it fills my well - the best part about teaching for me is that i get to use my creativity all day at work. it makes it so much fun! thanks for adding me to the hat. come over for a visit! olwyn #827

The crocheted bear is adorable, so please enter me in your draw. I am a teacher in primary school, but I am a music specialist. So I am teaching all the children of the whole school for 8 years in a row (4-12 years).

It's strange to be a follower leaving a normal comment when everyone else seems to have come from OWOH. Maybe I'll check it out. In the meantime I just wanted Ro say I love your bears. Especially the panda. My OH still has his tiny panda from when he was a baby and yours really reminds me of his.

Hello to another Sci-Fi Geek. I really don't watch as much as I use to before I discovered beads! I do enjoy a good read too. I don't have children either, but my dogs are enough for me & I don't have to buy them expensive shoes or send them to college & they might think it, but they can't say NO!

Hello from snowy New Hampshire! I really love your blog and your personal bio is wonderful! You should not have been intimidated by the art you are seeing on different blogs - we all start from where we are and grow from that point. The whole point of this blog hop was for us to reach out and meet new art friends, learn some new things, find new art resources and just have fun! I am having fun at your blog sooo...!I would love to have a chance to win a little bear, one can never have too many bears :D Please do come by my blog to say Hi so I can enter you in my giveaways.Big snowy hugs,Beth P (#409)http://elizabethstudio54.blogspot.com

Ahh don't be so hard on yourself, I would love to have an amigurumi bear! I made a little mini thread bear for my mom, just about drove me, my fingers, and eyes crazy lol. Happy OWOH, nice to meet you :)

Hello Tammy! Nice to meet you! I am glad you are a part of OWOH and got in under the wire. My degree is in art and education. Love your sweet little bears! What a great way to share a hug across the internet. Hope you will stop by for a visit. Wanda in Ohio#220http://needlewings.blogspot.comneedlewings(at)mac(dot)com

Thanks for stopping by my blog on your OWOH tour; I'd love to enter your giveaway too; the bears are so cute!I too have a long time love affair with yarn even though my main medium is fabric I've been knitting up a storm this winter.-)

I too, love to crochet and am learning to knit. *smile* I also love to paint, and other crafting. I love children and taught pre school for 11 years. Now I have hopes of teaching creative classes from my own studio. I love your amigurmi bears- and would love a bear too. Thanks for the chance to particpate.

Oh I love this giveaway...my youngest son adores bears and this one of a kind bear would be so loved in my house. Thank you for the chance of winning.smiles...Tammyhttp://tamminniesdesigns.blogspot.com

I love your bear prize!! I shouldn't be greedy and leave my name because I have two little brown knitted bears that my husband's aunt made for our son. But I love bears and I would treasure yours if I could be so lucky as to win. And I got the answer to my question.....your real name. But you know, Gracey, is a lovely name because long ago my uncle had a girlfriend named Gracie and I thought she was the prettiest, loveliest girl and he broke up with her. He should have checked with me first. LOL!

I am trying to teach myself to crochet little creatures. So far, I can only crochet things that go in straight lines, like scarves and blankets. This inspires me to get moving on learning other shapes and techniques! :) Thank you for the giveaway!

Hello! I am just flying in from OWOH. Please enter my name in your wonderful prize and pop on by my blog if you would like to enter my OWOH giveaway(if you have not done so already). You are most welcome to visit my blog any time. :) I love visitors. :)

Oh you are too cute, teddies & scifi!!! My whole family dressed up & went to Supanova a scifi, manga, anime, comic geek fest last year & we are unashamedly heading off to BrisVegas (that's Brisbane Australia) for the weekend to attend this year too!! Too Cool!! I'm pleased to meet you fellow Trekkie (I'm Shelle from Sunshine Coast Australia - they filmed Farscape here) If you have time (I don't think I've seen you visit, but could be just dazed from dancing around the world LOL) I'd love you to come on over check out my giveaways & comment at my OWOH post too :) oh & please feel free to drop in now and then after OWOH if you're in the bloggersphere :) that'd be cool! Now let's enjoy this hurly burly wonderful One World One Heart EXTRAVAGANZA :) It's bigger than the remake of Battlestar Galactica, better go, there's lot's more blogs & I feel like I'm in a marathon (or maybe 'Lost in Space' LOL)!! Up, UP & AWAAAAAAY!!http://sunshineshelles.blogspot.com/

You have a warm and enjoyable blog and your bears are adorable. I really enjoyed my quick look around. Please enter me in your giveaway and visit me, if you haven't already. I'm number 11 and my information is on my profile page.

HELLO GRACEY,MY NAME IS DEBBIE AND I LIVE IN THE GREAT STATE OF OKLAHOMA. I SIGNED UP FOR YOUR FLATTENED STANLEY. IF YOU HAVE ALREADY DONE IT THIS YEAR...CONTACT ME NEXT. I AM ALWAYS WILLING TO HELP A TEACHER IN ANY WAY I CAN.YOUR BEAR IS ADORABLE. IT WILL BE COMING TO A LOVING HOME AND I WILL INTRODUCE HER TO ALL THE OTHER BEARS AND SEND YOU UPDATES.I GAVE UP CROCHETING BECAUSE IT GETS TIGHTER AND TIGHTER AS I GO AND A SMALL BLANKET COULD BE A RUG.YOUR BLOG IS VERY LOVELY. I HOPE YOU WILL STOP BY FOR A VISIT. THE TEA IS ALWAYS ON AND I AM A GOOD LISTENER.HAVE A SUGAR SWEET DAYSIMPLY DEBBIE

Greetings from southern California. Love your giveaway, sweet and snuggly. Please add me to your hat. I'm flying in during the final hours of OWOH. Thank you and cheers!http://sewingthroughthemuck.blogspot.com/

Lovely blog and lovely giveaways…I hope I win. I have been collecting bears since I was a teenager...I would love to add one of yours to my collection.Carolyn Kight Michigan USAMy blogs in OWOHhttp://lildarlingsbycarolyn.blogspot.com http://touringbabies.blogspot.com/

email: cmkights@tc3net.comanother email carolynleekight@gmail.com (I like this one the best.)

Hey Tammy, It's so delightful to meet you via OWOH. I used to watch Buffy every week. I don't know which Pride and Prejudice movie you like, but my fave is the one with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle. Your bears are adorable. Please count me in. ~Michelle, OWOH #598

Hi, it's wonderful to meet you through this lovely event. I'd love for my name to be entered into your giveaway. Thank you in advance and have a wonderful day. :-) I'm off now to look at more of your blog!

Hello from Oregon! Thanks for letting me peek around in your blog and enter your giveaway.Thanks for the chance to win!Please feel free to come to my blog and enter for my doorprize as well!:) Gale OWOH #473http://galevarland.blogspot.comgizmo01@charter.net

I like your rhombus at the top of the page...I think that is what it is called! Please add me to your sweet giveaway.Teresa in Californiatscat@sbcglobal.netI can be found at: Cloth and Clay doll ning; MAIDA doll ning in the Izannah Walker doll workshop; and in Odd-dolls with PatteeCheers!

well giving those things away will give a blog overload!!Nice to meet you! What a way meeting people from the world!! Fantastic!Thanks for visiting me!Love from Zutphen, the Netherlands.Susannainfo[at]susi-art[dot]nl

Hello and it is wonderful to meet you. I loved taking a little visit through your blog and hope to come back for more. I would love to be part of your OWOH giveaway. So exciting. Please do drop in for a visit with me during your journey.wishes and whimsyWendy from Wonderland

Hi Gracey my name is Sharon and Ihale from TN it is so nice to meet you. And yes I am glad you joined because after all a handmade gift is the gift itself not how gorgeous it is or beautiful or whatever it is the fact that you made it and I would be proud to have one of your bears. I have joined you as a follower and I hope we get to chat at one time.

My fifth grade teacher is the one teacher that affected my life the most. I loved her, as a foster child I had a hard time fitting in and she saw my potential and took an interest. I worked in her families store after school and she taught me a work ethic, responsibility, and pride in myself. I will never forget her. I went back and saw her about 14 years ago. She was in her 80's. She remembered me and was so happy that I came to visit.

Thank you for a delightful visit. I also looked at your other blog.Love the Booga bag.

Thanks for coming by Turn Left at the Pigs, and yes, I will be listing the "Metal Head' earrings haha, this weekend.Diane